Take membrane out, place on plastic wrap, blot lightly with Kimwipe. Then fold over plastic wrap to cover (squeeze out bubbles)

Image membrane

Use gel imager on chemiluminescence setting. Set for 5-100 s, in 5s increments

It's also useful to take another picture in white light (without moving membrane) to image the ladder.

Notes

SDS-Page: At this step I usually take 40uL of supernatant (and mix it with 10uL 5x loading buffer), then remove the rest and resuspend the pellet in 200uL 60% glycerol. Then I take 40uL of the resuspended pellet and mix it with 10uL 5x loading buffer and then continue following the protocol. This pellet resuspention isn't optimized; the pellet fraction usually ends up looking like a dot/blob when the western is imaged - but you can at least get an idea of where your protein is in the cell (supernatant = soluble, pellet = probably membrane bound). -Isis

Semi-Dry Transfer: I just use 1x transfer buffer (with no methanol) and don't pre-equilibrate the gel. I think I can get away with this because my proteins are relatively small (at least compared to Josh's). Also, for some reason the voltage doesn't always stay at 15V after I set it, so I always go back and double check and adjust after a few minutes of running. -Isis

On the high voltage source, you set upper limits on both the current and voltage. For the semidry transfer you have (initially) a very low voltage and very high current. Make sure the current limit is wide open, and the voltage limit is what's keeping the voltage at 15V. If the current limit is initially responsible for keeping the system at 15V then the voltage will drift up over time. -Josh